Friday night date with Oscar-nominated shorts

On a chilly afternoon a few years back, some friends invited me to watch a double feature of that season’s Oscar-nominated short films (both animated and live action) and it was somewhat of a revelation. Before that, I had always snoozed through that section of the award ceremony and assumed you had to be an Arquette or Coppola in order to have any clue as to what was going on. Not so! In fact, you can watch all of the nominated works in just a couple of hours, and it’s hard to imagi